Richard Peurifoy of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/11/2008 02:13:03 PM:
> Chase, John wrote: > > Hi, All, > > > > A colleague asks, "When did the requirement to pre-allocate the first > > "goovoo" as a "seed" go away?" > > > > TIA, > > > > -jc- > > I don't think this was ever a requirement. > You needed to allocate a "PATTERN DSCB" with the > GDG base name (everything but the GnnnnV00). > This had to be on the same volume as the catalog the > GDG was in. This was used to get the default DCB info. > It could be avoided by specifying the DSCB keyword in > the DD card that created the GDS. There may have been > a time when you couldn't specify the DSCB keyword and > had to have a pattern DSCB, but I don't know. > The pattern or model DSCB could be specified via the DCB=dsname parameter. This avoided having to allocate a GDG base name for every file. Regards, John K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
